ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR RESEARCH IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
(* The terms "online" and "CD-ROM" mean that the works are available in computer-searchable form as well as in print. Printed counterparts exist for nearly all of the computerized indexes and databases. "E.g." [“exempli gratia”] means that the item listed is just an example and that other similar works exist.)
LIBRARY CATALOGS
Wright State University (online)*
OhioLINK Central Catalog (online)
WorldCat (online)
PERIODICAL INDEXES
BOOK REVIEW INDEXES
Book
Review Digest (Abs/Inds Z1219 .C96 1905-1994.)
Book Review Index (online)
Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities (Abs/Inds Z1035.A1 I63)
CUMULATIVE INDEXES
Academic Search Complete (online)
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature (online)
Humanities International Complete (online)
MLA
International Bibliography (online)
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (Abs/Inds AI3.R48)
[E.g.] The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (Ref Z2012.E589)*
[E.g.] The Romantic Movement Bibliography, 1936-1970 (PN750.5.R65)
[E.g.] New York Times Index (Abs/Inds AI21.N452)
[E.g.] New York Times Book Review Index1896-1970 (Abs/Inds AP2.N658)
[E.g.] Times Index (Abs/Inds AI21.T46)
[E.g.]
Times [of London] Digital Archive, 1785-1985 (online)
[E.g.]
Nineteenth Century Masterfile (online) [contains Poole's Index to Periodical Literature]
INDEXES TO ESSAYS IN COLLECTIONSEssay and General Literature Index (Abs/Inds AI3 .E752)
INDEX OF BIBLIOGRAPHIESBibliographic Index (Abs/Inds Z1002.B595)
TOPIC BIBLIOGRAPHIES[E.g.] Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (PR441.S63 1989 [E.g.] Bibliographies of authors and periods in the end matter of the Norton Anthology volumes [E.g.] Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (online)
REVIEWS OF RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS OF LITERARY CRITICISM American Literary Scholarship (Ref PS3 A47) Jordan, The English Romantic Poets, 4th ed. (Reserve PR590 .E5 1985) Literary Criticism Online (comprises 19th Century Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Children's Literature Review) Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Ref PN771 G27) (Use the online Literary Index to Gale publications) Year's Work in English Studies (Ref PE58.E6 and online)
REFERENCE WORKSBIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES AND INDEXESAmerican National Biography (online) Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Ref CT213.B56 and CD-ROM) Biography Index (SW Dep Z5301.B5) Contemporary Authors (online) Directory of American Scholars (Ref LA2311.C32) Dictionary of American Biography (Ref E176.D56) Dictionary of Literary Biography (Ref PN451 D52) (Use the online Literary Index to Gale publications) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) Marquis Who's Who on the Web (online)
CONCORDANCES AND SEARCHABLE FULL-TEXT DATABASES
African-American Poetry 1760-1900 (online)
American Drama (online)
American Poetry 1600-1900 (online)
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry (online)
Early American Fiction (online)
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (online)
English Poetry 600-1900 (online)
English Prose Drama (online)
English Verse Drama (online)
20th Century African-American Poetry (online)
20th Century American Poetry (online)
20th Century English Poetry (online)DICTIONARIESOxford English Dictionary (online)
Oxford Reference Online (online)LITERARY HISTORIES